Launch Day!

The car is loaded up and I’m about to drive to the launch site. The weather is beautiful and the skies are crystal clear. Final tweaks were made this weekend to the payload and parachute. Also, this past Friday we got the helium tank and rigged up a regulator valve that (hopefully) will help us fill the balloon.

We ran one last prediction model and it has us landing just short of Sumter, SC.

If you are interested in tracking the balloon online, or want to see the predicted launch site in Google Earth, the predicted latitude/longitude is

Lat: 33.9331

Lon: -80.3966

*Just type the numbers straight into Google Earth.

The actual GPS tracking page for the GPS tracker in our payload is here:

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Our HAB Project

This site encompasses every area of our project to launch a high altitude weather balloon (HAB) 19 miles above the earth while capturing HD video. Each post details one area of the project. If you want to simply see the end results, find the posts close to the top of the page. If you are looking to do your own HAB project then start at the bottom and work your way up!

**Special thanks to the Midlands Technical College Foundation for fully funding our project. Without their support this project would not have been possible.**